Bale-band fastener



(No Model.)

P. K. DBDERICK. BALB BAND PASTBNBR.

Patented June 16, 1896.

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PETER K. DEDERICK, OF LOUDONVILLE, NEIV YORK.

BAALE-BAN D FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,122, dated June 16, 1896.

Application tiled .Tune 25,1894. Serial No,l 515,669. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER K. DEDEEICK, of Loudonville, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Hoop- Iron Bale-Band Fastening, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the Iaccompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l illustrates the hoop iron band adapted to my improved fastening. Fig. 2 is perspective view of my improved band-fastening detached. Fig. 3 illustrates the same secured as on a bale. Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, l0, 1l, and l2 illustrate modifications of the lock.

, Similar letters represent similar parts.

The band 'A is formed from hoop-iron cut to proper length for a band and two or more holes C punched at each end, as shown in Fig. 1, and through these holes a lock B, Fig. 2, is passed diagonally, or having the projecting points or bearing-arms of the lock inclined in the direction of the band, as shown, so as to form a double lock with inclined bearings adapted to catch in the holes C at the other end of theband, thus locking the ends together, as shown in Fig.

I have shown the lock B as made from a rod or wire, but it may be cast or punched from sheet metal. It may be separate from the band and inserted through both ends of the band after having been put around the bale, but I prefer to secure it in one end of the band for convenience, and any suitable manner of securing the lock through the holes of one end of the band will suflice. It may be inserted through the holes in the end of the band A, and then bending the ends back to the proper inclination will also secure it fast to the band, so as to retain it, as shown in Fig. 2, or the end of the hoop may be turned back over the end of the lock to retain it, as shown at E, Fig. 3, or both these methods together may be employed. Thus turning back the end of the hoop over the lock is an economical method of securing any looking part to the band.

For use on the continuous press,where there is liability of unlocking in passing through the press, and also to facilitate entering the end of the lock-arm, the end may be bent backward, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5 at D.

For greater strength two lock devices might be used, or one with more than two arms, for instance as Fig. l2, and a corresponding number of holes in the other end of the band.

Fig. lO illustrates the lock B with a long end to form a lever to draw the band closer about the bale, and lthus use a shorter band.

vThe arms of this lock are also inclined back,

ing the vends at an angle as shown, the effect in use is to form lock bolts or arms, with inclined bcarin gs for both ends of the band, each band end crowding against the other, and, wedging between it and the bolt or inclined lock-arm with force in proportion to the strain on the band, render canting of the lock or slipping of the band ends impossible. Moreover, the bearing edge of the band on the lock-arm is thus greatly sustained and prevented from crushing, splitting, or tearing out by being thus wedged and supported, and very much lighter hoop-iron may be used for the same work, and for light work the one bolt or arm may be dispensed with or bent against the band to secure it, as shown in Fig. Il.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as follows:

l. The combination with the band having the overlapping ends with coincident apertures therein, of the locking-staple having a pointed inclined arm with a straight body for penetrating the confined material, the straight body of said arm being set at such an acute angle to the body of the staple as will permit of its being driven straight through the coincident apertures and into the confined material; substantially as described.

2. The combination with the hoop-iron band of a lock passing through one of its ends and secured in place by a fold in said end; substantially as described.

3. The combination with the band having the overlapping ends with coincident apertures therein, of the locking-staple having a plurality of pointed inclined arms with straight bodies for penetrating the confining IOC material, the straight bodies of said arms bearms adapted to penetrate the eonllnod ma- 1o ing parallel and set ab such an acute angle to teral, the end of one of said arms being bent the body of the staple as will permit of its a1: an angle to the body of the arm; substanbeing driven straight through the coincident tally as described. apertnres and lnolhe eonlnedmaterlal; sul PETER K. DEDERCK stantlally as deserlbed.

1L. The combination with the band having lVtnesses: the overlapping' ends provided with apertures, R. J. VAN SCHOONHOVEN, of the loek B havngthe substantially straight F. X. CLEMENT. 

